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Meet The Six Times Cricket World Champions Australia

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Australia won the 13th edition of the ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup by defeating India by six wickets in the final on November 19 at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad.

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With this win, the Aussies clinched their historic sixth ODI World Cup title. The Australian side was led to victory by their captain Pat Cummins. The Australian cricket team is the most successful team in the tournament’s history. With eight appearances in 13 finals, the Australian side has also featured in the most finals in the tournament.

Australia’s Travis Head was declared the Player of the Match of the finals. He scored 137 runs off 120 balls.

Glenn Maxwell Scored The Fastest Century In A Cricket World Cup In 40 Balls.

Glenn Maxwell Is The First Australian To Score A Double Hundred In The ODIs And It Was The First-Time A Double Century Was Scored In A Run Chase.

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Travis Head Became The Second Player To Score A Century (137 Runs) In A World Cup Final.

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Did You Know?

This year, Australia has also won the World Test Championship final in England defeating India. They also won the Ashes.

In 2003, Australia had won the ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup by defeating India!

With this win Australia has won the World Cup title 6 times viz. 1987, 1999, 2003, 2007, 2015, and 2023.

It is the only country to have won six World Cup titles until now.

They are also the only team to have won three Cricket World Cups in a row – 1999, 2003, and 2007.

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World’s First Successful Eye Transplant

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For the first time ever, a human eyeball has been transplanted successfully. Aaron James received the transplant in New York back in May, during a 21-hour opera-tion. Surgeon Eduardo Rodriguez was joined by a team of more than 140 people to complete the procedure, which has never been tried before. Five months after getting his new eyeball, James is feeling good. He said: “Before the transplant, emotionally, I was a little down. My confidence level was a little low. 

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But, since the transplant, I tell people I can’t walk past the mirror without looking at it. It has made me stand up taller. It’s great.” James lost his eye when he was injured badly in 2021.

Experts aren’t sure if he ever will be able to see using his new eye, but they are confident this is a big step forward in helping others with similar injuries.

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Gwalior and Kozhikode Added To UNESCO Creative Cities List

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Gwalior and Kozhikode, have been added to the prestigious list of UNESCO Creative Cities Network (“UCCN”). These two Indian cities are among the 55 new cities to join the UCCN. UNESCO praised these new cities for “their strong commitment to harnessing culture and creativity as part of their development strate-gies, as well as displaying innovative practices in human-centered urban planning. 

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While Gwalior, (in Madhya Pradesh) made the list in the ‘Music’ category, Kozhikode, (in Kerala) made the list in the ‘Literature’ category. Few other cities included in the list are Casablanca for Media Arts, Kathmandu for Film, and Rio de Janeiro for Literature. With these new additions, UCCN now lists 350 cities in more than a hundred countries, representing seven creative fields: Crafts and Folk Art, Design, Film, Gastronomy, Lit-erature, Media Arts and Music.

Can you think of any other Indian city that can be a part of UCCN and for which creative field?

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Monkey Lives Two years With Pig Kidney

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In a successful scientific experiment, a monkey has survived two years after a pig’s kidney was put inside it. This could solve the problem of human organ short-age. Sometimes people’s organs, like kidney and liver, do not work properly and they need new ones to live.

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However, there are not enough organ donors. Scientists have used animal organs in humans before but the human body rejected these animal organs. Scientists have discovered that these animal organs are rejected by the human body because our immune system treats these animal organs like a bacteria or virus.

Prior to the transplant in the monkey, the scientists removed the unwanted genes from the pig. This made the pig accept the kidney without any troubles. Scientists think that modified pig organs will work better for humans, because they are a better match. The kidney of an adult pig is around the same size as that of an adult human.

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Ayodhya Creates a New Guinness World record owned

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On the eve of Diwali, Ayodhya celebrated Deepotsav by illuminating 22.23 lakh divas across 51 ghats on the banks of Saryu River to create a new Guinness World Record.

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The record is for lighting up the highest number of lamps in a single place globally. The 22.23 lakh diyas, 6.47 lakh more than last year, were lit by 25,000 volunteers at the ghats. The representatives of the Guinness Book of World Records counted the lamps using drones. The Deepotsav tradition started in Ayod-hya in 2017, when 51,000 diyas were lit. Each successive year the number has only increased.

Did You Know?

In 2022, Ayodhya had set the Guinness World Record record by illuminating 15,76,955 diyas during Deepostav.

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